Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Dirt Music by Tim Winton is a novel about the power of love.
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. She spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka and self-recrimination. Until, early one morning, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below her house. It is Luther Fox, an outcast, a man on the run from his own past. And now here he is stepping into Georgie’s life. He brings hope, maybe even love, but also danger . . .
'Compelling' Independent
'Beautiful' Sunday Telegraph
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509871131
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 328 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 29 mm
Generous, earthy and raw . . . Mysteries don’t come more heartfelt than this - Independent
Winton keeps writing fiction that makes the novel feel alive to a continent of possibilities - Evening Standard
Winton is not a great Australian novelist; he is a great novelist, full stop - The Times
Written in seemingly effortless prose that never puts a foot wrong - Sunday Times
A book about the possibility and power of love . . . just pick it up and you'll be transported - Mail on Sunday
Winton's writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics . . . Dirt Music is a beautiful celebration of his country - Sunday Telegraph
Stunningly written . . . a revelation . . . a magnificent book with themes as enormous as its landscape - Big Issue
You may like this book because it describes very well a fishing community on the west coast of Australia: landscape, lifestyle, people and all. But beware! This is the first book I have given up over half-way through!... More
Having read Cloudstreet, which I enjoyed very much, then Breath, I decided to have a go at Dirt Music. I love Winton's style of writing - and it is no more prolific than in this novel.If you're a fan of this... More
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